.reqCurrentTime <-
function(conn) {
  if(!isConnected(conn))
    stop('peer has gone away. check your IB connection',call.=FALSE)
  if(!is.twsConnection(conn))
    stop('requires twsConnection object')

  con <- conn[[1]]

  writeBin(.twsOutgoingMSG$REQ_CURRENT_TIME,con)
  writeBin('1',con)

}

reqCurrentTime <-
function(twsconn) {
  .reqCurrentTime(twsconn)
  con <- twsconn[[1]]
  e_current_time <- eWrapper()
  e_current_time$currentTime <- function(curMsg, msg, timestamp, file, ...) { msg[2] }
  while (isConnected(twsconn)) {
    socketSelect(list(con), FALSE, NULL)
    curMsg <- readBin(con, character(), 1)
    currentTime <- processMsg(curMsg,
                              con,
                              eWrapper=e_current_time,
                              twsconn=twsconn,
                              timestamp=NULL, file="")
    if(curMsg == .twsIncomingMSG$CURRENT_TIME)
      break
  }
  structure(as.numeric(currentTime), class=c("POSIXt", "POSIXct")) 
#  tz <- Sys.getenv("TZ")
#  on.exit(Sys.setenv(TZ=tz))
#  Sys.setenv(TZ='GMT')
#  xts:::as.POSIXct.numeric(as.numeric(currentTime),tz='GMT',origin='1970-01-01')
}

